For readers in Spain and parts of Latin America, Monday's Google Doodle celebrates the discovery of 36,000-year-old art in the Altamira Caves of northern Spain. The cave and its secrets had been ...

“Look, Daddy – oxen,” 9-year-old Maria cried out, pointing to the roof of the cave. Her father, Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola, looked up. It was 1879 and he was making his second visit to the Cave of ...

The cavern that houses Spain’s most celebrated prehistoric art is on the mend from a microbial infestation that closed it to the public. A push from regional government officials to reopen Altamira ...

Murals discovered by amateur archaeologist and his daughter in 1879 It’s been called the “Sistine Chapel of paleolithic art,” and it’s been closed to the public for more than a decade – until now.

At least 14,000 years ago, artists took to Altamira cave in Spain with charcoal and red pigments, painting bison, deer and their own handprints on the rock walls and ceiling. This prehistoric art ...

SANTILLANA DEL MAR, SPAIN—According to an El País report, three previously unrecorded hand stencils have been found on the walls of northern Spain’s Altamira Cave by researchers from the Museum of ...

This past Saturday, the Fundación Botín released a statement announcing the tragic passing of José Antonio Lasheras, who has served as director of the Museo Nacional y Centro de Investigación de ...

A historical drama in which Hugh Hudson and Antonio Banderas team up to tell the troubled history of Spain’s Altamira cave paintings. By Jonathan Holland A first viewing of the 35,000-year-old cave ...

a policy article published in the journal Science in October 2011, Spanish scientists argued against the reopening of Altamira Cave, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The cave contains multicolored cave ...